A final overhaul of net neutrality faces steep odds with a Democratic-controlled Senate and a pro-net-neutrality Barack Obama wielding a veto pen. But Upton's move generates a fresh opportunity to revisit the net neutrality debate in light of recent developments.

The federal government is a powerful entity, but try as it might it cannot repeal the laws of supply and demand. So don’t blame the drug makers or the banks; blame the politicians in Washington and their inability to see that price "controls" can’t control the larger market.

The last thing a struggling American economy needs is regulators with itchy trigger fingers taking aim at one of the country's most dynamic sectors.

Rather than listening to the experts, find your own fliers. Just remember: Don't invest more than you can safely lose, adopt an exit strategy, and don't confuse taking fliers with long-term investing.

All the rules that govern the technology sector are being rewritten by the industry's participants every six months or so. Does Washington really need to add new, top-down rules into that mix?

Newt Gingrich's Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8 and William S. Cohen's Dragon Fire are good summer reads.

The New York Senate campaign, where the two candidates have raised a total of $55 million, looks decidedly cut-rate compared with the campaigns for two education initiatives in California.

Market-based school reforms have not delivered because they were never designed to succeed. The challenge for champions of choice is to understand what happened and what comes next.